Daily Roast
The Grill Room & RdV Vineyards Host Wine Dinner at Rosewood
January 25, 2018The Grill Room at The Rosewood Hotel in Georgetown is launching a special Wine Dinner Series with four dinners in February, March, and April, showcasing unique wines from vineyards across the U.S. and Europe.
On February 7th, the dinner will highlight RdV Vineyards, a nearby Virginia favorite specializing in Bordeaux-style blends. The menu will feature several wine varietals thoughtfully paired with seasonally inspired dishes, including Ricotta Gnocchi, Rohan Duck Breast, and Grilled Dry Aged Hangar Steak.
The evening will include a carefully curated four course dinner along with wines paired by RdV's Master Sommelier, Jarad Slipp who will be attendance.
To reserve, call The Grill Room at 202.617.2424
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A Season of Music With The Phillips Collection
January 7, 2018The Phillips Collection is hosting a season of music at the Anderson House while the Phillips original house undergoes a thermal upgrade project.
“Silence . . . is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.” —Alfred Brendel
While no Phillips Music concert season is limited to a strict theme, this season’s musicians and the music share a common thematic thread of works that celebrate the silences within music on many levels. Music without silence is like a painting without a canvas, the former dependent upon the latter. Silence has the power to captivate us; it can leave us hanging in suspense or force us to reflect on what we have experienced. We encourage our concert goers this season to focus on the impact of silence, to explore how the absence of a medium—be it sound waves or brushstrokes—resonates with or challenges our perceptions of art.
General admission seating is first-come, first-served beginning 45 minutes prior to concert start time. Tickets are $40, $20 for members and students with ID unless otherwise noted; museum admission for that day is included. Advance reservations are strongly recommended; tickets can be reserved online until 12 hours before each concert.
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The Phillips Collection is located at 1600 21st Street NW.
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CARE Hosts Global Leaders, Honors Girls' Education
December 14, 2017With the Afghanistan and United Arab Emirates ambassadors attending, the global poverty-fighting organization CARE hosted a reception Tuesday to honor the progress made toward girls’ education in Afghanistan, where CARE has worked since 1961.
(Photo by: Neshan H. Naltchayan)
Christine Warnke & Afghanistan Amb. Hamdullah Mohib
“We are no longer the country that was reduced to rubble,” said Hamdullah Mohib, Afghanistan’s ambassador to the U.S. “The last 15 years have changed our country.” The annual higher education graduation rate, he said, went up from a minimal number to 300,000. “We are no longer an isolated country…we are a new country…but we do have challenges.”
The ambassador also gave credit to international charitable organizations, saying, “We would not be where we are … but because of organizations” such as CARE.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., agreed that significant progress for women and girls has been achieved in Afghanistan.
To illustrate that headway, Shaheen noted a recent accomplishment of Afghan girls, ages 14-17, at Europe’s largest robotics festival in Estonia. The girls won the Entrepreneur Challenge with a robot that could use solar energy to support small-scale farmers.
Michelle Nunn, president and CEO of CARE, in her talk, said: “Now 9 million students are in school from the 1 million that were a few years ago, and 40 percent of those are girls.
“Girls’ education is the cornerstone of our development progress. CARE knows when we invest in girls’ empowerment, we pave the way for equality, growth and prosperity….
“The CARE Global Leaders Network supports America’s legacy of delivering humanitarian and development assistance to fight poverty, relieve suffering and promote human rights – ultimately enhancing our national security and global stability.”
(Photo by: Neshan H. Naltchayan)
(l) Gen. Carter Ham, Amb. Ryan Crocker, Susan Retik, Amb. Hamdullah Mohib, Dusty Huscher, Michelle Nunn, Nancy Frees Fountain, & Tex Fountain
The event was the first in a series of embassy-based receptions presented by CARE’s Global Leaders Network, a strategic initiative aimed at supporting humanitarian and development aid through an active network of national security, business and military veteran leaders who support CARE’s work.
It drew more than 120 attendees, including UAE Ambassador Yousif Al Otaiba, members of Congress and congressional staff, foreign dignitaries, international development experts, corporate partners, philanthropists, media and members of the national security, business and military veterans’ communities.
Among those speaking were Martha Brooks, chair of CARE’s board of directors, retired U.S. Army Gen. Carter Ham, former commander of the United States Africa Command, and Amb. Ryan Crocker , former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq.
(Photo by: Neshan H. Naltchayan)
Business executive Barbara Lang (l), Bahishta Talash (3rd secretary Afghan embassy & Marco Aguilar (COO, principal of Lang Strategies
Attendees included: Kåre Aas, Norway’s ambassador to the U.S.; Vlora Çitaku, Kosovo’s ambassador to the U.S.; former Yemen ambassador to the U.S. Abdulwahab Al-Hajjri, California Rep. John Garamendi; and Gen. John Campbell (USA, Ret.), previously the commander of the Resolute Support Mission and U.S. Forces in Afghanistan,and vice chief of staff of the U.S. Army.
More Global Leaders Network events are scheduled in D.C. for Feb. 13, 2018 at the embassy of Finland, in April at the embassy of Australia, and in May at the embassy of Canada.
For more information about the Global Leaders Network program, visit CARE.
Founded in 1945, CARE, based in Atlanta, is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. CARE places special focus on working alongside poor girls and women because, equipped with the proper resources, they have the power to lift whole families and entire communities out of poverty.
Last year, CARE worked in 94 countries and reached more than 80 million people around the world.
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